Fox Fixes CPAC

There was just too much cheering when Ron Paul was announced as the winner of CPAC’s straw poll this year, so Fox News aired a clip from last year, when room full of disappointment Romneyites jeered Paul’s first victory. Fox has since apologized and said the tapes got mixed up. A commenter on YouTube had an appropriately skeptical response: “Yes, it was a simple mistake, because﻿ Fox doesn’t index its files by date or event. It indexes them by the appearance of the people in the video.”

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Yeah, right. The apology was more like “sorry we got caught.” If you notice, Bill Hemmer gave a deer-in-the-headlights apology, but Fox did not play the tape of the REAL reaction, which was bedlam. Ron Paul is the true conservative, others are RINOs who have bought into the terrorist-industrial complex. Run, Ron, run!

Thanks for reminding me why I never watch FOX News. Now the Simpsons, Family Guy and House are another matter. Two thumbs up there (or should that be three thumbs up? Grammar is not my strong point since I went to Andover and Yale.). I guess the moral of the story is that FOX should stick to what it does best: cartoons and medical dramas.

Anyone remember Fox News’ “Zero Tolerance” policy for these kinds of “errors” that they supposedly put in place after ‘mistakenly’ airing footage of Palin’s VP run and passing it off as footage from her book tour? Seems like their tolerance for these ‘mishaps’ is just fine…

Ken E. – only if you believe that the USA ought to continue to be a colony of the state of Israel, and any dissent makes you “A Vicious Anti-Semite and Anti-American”. The commandment against bearing false witness – destroying a good name – still applies and those ever at the link are violating it.

Ron Paul’s views are very similar to Pat Buchanan and the late Joe Sobran.

As to Faux news, they are on a withershins merry-go-round instead of the standard daesil. But they go faster trying to make up for their smaller number not realizing they tend to fly off farther when they don’t hold tight enough.

Worse, they aren’t conservative. They are the Warfare instead of Welfare to the other side’s vice versa. They like the jackboots and guestapo tactics, just for slightly different ends.

A close relative of mine worked at CNN for many years when Hemmer was there. She said his journalistic skills and grasp of the issues made William Hurt’s character in “Broadcast News” look like Eric Sevareid.

For a time he took to wearing fake glasses on the air in an effort to appear more serious. The crew started referring to him as Clark Kent.

Reading the comments from TAC readers about their disdain for FNC (which I deeply share) really illustrates the superficiality of mainstream political thought in this country: Fox, considered ‘the voice of conservatism’ by the vast majority of Americans, is more like a comic strip caricature of the movement, just as Hemmer and most of his colleagues (not just at Fox) are a pale imitation of an informed press.